Ellis County, Kansas genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse

1204 Fort St; Hays, KS 67601Phone: 785.628.8410

County Clerk has birth, marriage, and death records 1886-1911.Clerk District court has divorce, probate, court and naturalization records. Register of Deeds has land, military discharge & school records. [1]

History

Parent County

1867--Ellis County was created 26 February 1867 from unorganized territory. County seat: Hays [2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Ellis

Hays

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Kansas Land and Property for additional information about early Kansas land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed.

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Ellis County was not organized until after the Civil War so no Civil War enlistment records exist.

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Ellis Public Library: Library holdings can be searched in Pathfinder Central. The library may have cataloged unique items related to genealogy and local history, in addition to published works for this area.